This one day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event is for
everyone who is interested in the current debates around mental health.
It aims to attract psychologists, counsellors, service users,
psychotherapists, mental health support professionals, psychiatrists,
people with lived experience, managers and individuals with a personal
interest.

Facilitated by Dr Lucy Johnstone & Jo Watson, and featuring
Edinburgh based spoken word artist and activist Jo McFarlane. It is a
chance to discuss the critical questions of the day around the
biomedical model in mental health.

Lucy Johnstone will summarise current debates and controversies about
psychiatric diagnosis. It is increasingly acknowledged, even within the
mental health establishment, that categories like 'schizophrenia',
'bipolar disorder' and 'personality disorder' lack validity. The false
assumption that distress is best understood as disease can have very
serious consequences for the individual, their identity, and their path
to recovery. Lucy will present alternatives to diagnosis which can help
clients to make sense of experiences of distress, however extreme, and
which are based on working together to explore personal meaning. There
will opportunities for debate and practice-based exercises. ..."Link to Eventbrite info and Tickets--------------------